Data Science Developer in Sofia, Bulgaria

Member since December 16, 2016

Jesse is an experienced data scientist who solves complex problems. He co-founded an NLP company that was acquired in 2018, and has consulted at some of the best technology companies in Europe, such as Zalando, and MariaDB.
Jesse's core programming language is Python, and has several years of experience with R. His expertise is in NLP, in the construction and optimization of machine learning models, and in visualizing big data.

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The most amazing...

...thing I've built is a deep-learning algorithm to detect market moving events in the stock market. We were able to help hedge funds reduce portfolio volatility.

Employment

Lead Data Scientist

2019 - PRESENT

Mobilads

Responsible for the construction and optimization of a geospatial system that maps physical ad impressions based on vehicle GPS data and mobile GPS data. The Mobilads geospatial system was successfully built to operate worldwide and built to scale to thousands of vehicles and billions of GPS points.

Built automated reporting systems for the clients of Mobilads to demonstrate the technology.

Continuously built up the company's IP portfolio through the integration of census, geotracking, and social data to enrich what Mobilad's knows about the people that see their vehicles. This ensures consistent industry-leading return on ad-spend.

Technologies: Python

CEO (Previously Chief Data Scientist)

2017 - 2019

Sigmai

Led a team of 15 data scientists, linguists, software engineers, product managers, and sales professionals.

Focused primarily on deep learning for text classification with Keras and Tensorflow, and its integration within a rule-based NLP system.

Developed an out-of-memory document clustering system to allow the clustering of billions of news articles.

Built a natural language processing (NLP) system that rivaled the best NLP companies in finance, and led to data trials with some of the largest fund managers.

Led and oversaw the Newsful application (app.Newsful.io) that was shortlisted for the 2018 SIIA CODiE Award. The business operations were acquired by Commetric (https://commetric.com).

Technologies: Python, Keras, TensorFlow, R

Contract Data Scientist

2017 - 2018

Dreamtalents

Designed an end-to-end machine learning application using Google Cloud to serve as an API for the front end team.

For a successful natural language processing project, collecting and preparing data, building resilient pipelines, and getting "model ready" can easily take months of effort even with the most talented engineers. But what if we could reduce the data required to a fraction?
In this article, we’ll cover how transfer learning is making world-class models open source and introduce BERT (bidirectional encoder representations from transformers). BERT is the most powerful NLP “tool” to date. We’ll explore how it works and why it will change the way companies execute NLP projects.